Abstract
The aim of this study is to clarify the features of the act of listening in the classroom lessons by analyzing the utterances of a student whom his teacher didn't consider as a good listener. In this study, depending on the Bakhtin's consideration on "dialogue" in which he connected the act of speaking and the act of listening, we started with the view that 1) the utterances are the responses to others' words and 2) the act of listening is "inner dialogue" with precedent others' words in the subjects and the words of responses by his listeners. Then, focusing on the building process of his utterances, I clarified the problem of his listening and analyzed the characteristics of the listening in the classroom lessons. As a result, it was cleared that the student 1) "addressed" his utterances only to his teacher, 2) didn't interact with the precedent others' utterances in the target, 3) couldn't involve the words of responses by his listeners and didn't appropriate them, 4) didn't conform with the flow of discussion supported by the listeners. From these results, it was indicated that the act of listening in the classroom lessons where students were required to participate in "one-to-many dialogue" had the characteristics: not only appropriating the precedent others' utterances, but also considering the flow of interaction, and then creating their own words involving the words of other students' responses for him.
